THE SCOW RONA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 485, 19 April 1909, Page 8

THE SCOW RONA.

■^V'vf ; ':-^v^;: : ;'Ai\TOTia;i6ss. ;V >;;; i ;i,;>i-;v:; ; ,^_ Last --Friday; an: erpert,-accompanied'.'-by Ifr. , Bartollo -Ensso .took advantage of the Ducb's visit, to .Palliser to visit the scene'of the wreck otthe scow'Eona'. 'Thoy made ari examination which only.,,tends -to: confirm published; reports i •that the-9cowvia.past.ealying. ~Thb vessel-was found to be lying-.ih the. mouth' of the'-Manga-toetoe-.Eiver.v.practicallv \a total, loss. - Both masts and the ! jibbbom hav« been carried 1 awav -the stern.has-been smashed, and the bulwarks' .■andi.decks'have, been: swept of.'everything. l in--eludmg : a wmch-capable of .lifting five tons. AH>three .anchora' are,; gone. ■" .The , hull,' badlv f^S s f. d, 18 W-l;Of waterj.and is firmly stuck'oh .the-.bottom; .at ythe'.entrance, to'the river. • . ' _Threo of the .salvaging , party are' standing by the-wreck,-: n>mely;.,Messrs.:--Charles .Wiesler m . a '*'M'Ooy. : (puinp- hVnd), and-'CharlesS es (of. Wainui-o-mata)..'/, Fpr the moßt part the salvaging-gear,vincluding:tw»-hydranUcpum« have?bcen,lost;'but;'iindeterred-;by this the Bal'vaging party aro'-underetood to he making fur-' thor. arrangements to salvage' the Ben Avon at anjearly^date.:-- 1 •'". -V •:•■.- -.- y ■ *

Tho Komata was expected to leave Westport yesterday morning for Lyttelton Mr A Casiin, late mate of the Defender, joins the Wairau as mate, uce Mr Day, who transfers to the Waverley ( ' On Saturday the cargo steamer Poherua left Greymouth for Wellington,'and is due this morning , Mr Knowlcs, late of 'the / Marama, joins the Monowai at Auckland as third officer, m place of elcond ,l^" 110 tran^ S *» th^ as At half past four yesterday afternoon tho ?5h »° n omp S ys »s?"™r Kittawa armia from Lyttelton Sho will discharge a Government locomotive today, and will then be laid up wt&e,dTe^g r *SSm» o^Sa&v 6 SSS& be ,n f ff hS n k amVal She -""« Tho Union Company's steamer Kaitaneata U expected hi.ro from southern porte tomorrow and leaves for the West Coast fater m the day' On Saturday morning tho Federal Houldcr Shiw steamer Drayton Grange, bound from Waitara to Timaru, passed through Cook Strait